February 2011
January 2011
Watchdiegueno:
Go ahead, right wing ideologues, put the pedal to the metal; the only suitable solution is single payer, anyway.
Repealing Individual Mandate May Lead to Public Option - CBS News Video
Not liking the phrase, “the dreaded public option”, but it does make the case for the US joining the rest of the world powers in providing Universal health care.
Unplug
via thehighdefinite.com Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
The Obama Effect On Egypt
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com From Nate Silver: “Egyptian popular opinion toward the United States has substantially improved over the course of the past 2 to 3 years, to the point that a new leader would probably not gain any points by expressing anti-American sentiment.” Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
GOP Not Serious About Jobs
The GOP’s next distraction: “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.”
Useless symbolic votes, not a care in the world to actually help the economy. Why? They have absolutely no experience. The Party of No.
The One Word Conservatives "Long To Hear"
Only one sitting president in the last 82 years has publicly uttered the magical phrase “American exceptionalism” — care to guess who it is? Ronald Reagan, he of the “shining city on a hill?” George W. Bush, who closed his speeches by asking that “God continue to bless” America? Nope. The only president to publicly discuss (and for that matter embrace)...
When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old... →
jonathan-cunningham:
idonteverwanna:
Wow.
“As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, “Please don’t shoot me.”
But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia’s father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the gunfire.”
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Glenn Beck’s American Ark →
Beck has become a preacher. Turn down the sound and he is indistinguishable from the televised megachurch evangelists who hammer away at sin day and night. The relentless pacing of the stage, punctuated with pregnant pauses and abrupt stops; the impish “we know something they don’t know” grins; the fierce earnestness; the odd and inscrutable gazing into the distance; the weeping and wailing for...
“It’s true that the United States’s educational system is measurably slipping....”
– The ‘Sputnik Moment’ That Wasn’t (via azspot)
The bitter pill we need to swallow.
“This is Obama’s old promise — no red states or blue states, only red, white, and...”
– George Lakoff (via azspot)
The Hard Right always amazes me how consider themselves Americans, yet want to end all successful American ideals. Social Security is an American invention. They want to end it. The best idea we have had as a Nation, one that works better than anything else for over 80...
“With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith...”
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The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones
All rape is fucking forcible, you assholes. I hate you all, Republicans. Seriously. Every last one of you. I don’t think I will ever feel safe in this country as a woman, and I am terrified for my daughter’s future.
(via greaterthanlapsed)
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"Win The Future"
The early returns are in, and it’s a landslide.
Snap polls (surveys with a small sample size taken immediately after a speech or event) almost always show a positive reaction to the State of the Union address. The reason is simple: if the President of the United States can’t make a persuasive argument — on the grandest platform in the world, with an hour of uninterrupted time...
Bankers In Davos Make Case For Being Complete...
For example, the bankers argued that the so-called Basel III rules might encourage banks to load up on sovereign bonds, even though recent experience has shown that government debt is more risky than it used to be. Ultimately the overall economy will suffer, they said.
via dealbook.nytimes.com
Bankers say that new rules will allow them to make old mistakes, despite having the experience....
GOP Hopeful Wants America To Stand Still
“I understand the goal, but right now this is going to be — anytime you talk about ‘investment’ it means new spending,” - Sen. John Thune (R-SC).
Right. Our global competitors are investing in research and new technologies, superior roads and rail, and making considerable investments in innovative, modern methods of transportation. We could do that here and...
Why Not Declare Class War and be Done With It →
Not only has the so-called “trickle-down” theory of economics been revealed to be a cruel hoax, but most of the good industrial jobs have left the country, the middle-class has been eviscerated, the wealthiest Americans (even in the wake of the recession) have quintupled their net worth, and polls show that upwards of 70 per cent of the American public feel the country is “headed in the wrong...
Two Views Of America
Obama: The Government is an engine for social and economic change.
Ryan/GOP: Over-reaching Government is the enemy of self-Government.
The GOP will never appeal to me.
Just admit that your idea of “limited government” goes out the window when the subject turns to reproductive issues, marriage rights and the rationale behind at least one of the wars we’re currently...
It's Not The Size, It's How You Use It
“Make no mistake: a more effective government is the public’s priority, not a smaller government. In a survey I helped conduct for the Center for American Progress’s Doing What Works government reform project, we found that, by a decisive 62 to 36 margin, the public said their priority for improving the federal government was increasing its efficiency and effectiveness,...
The Elected Under The Control Of Unelected Media
jonathan-cunningham:
Republican Congressmen admit they monitor talk radio to avoid contradicting Limbaugh or Beck because it enrages their voters, makes them confused
Our political system is controlled by unbelievably effective demagogues and liars. *sigh*
The Right love their unelected think tanks, just as much as their AM radio cretins, to develop policy an elected person would never write...
Ayn Rand, Welfare Queen, Nanny State Recipient:...
mohandasgandhi:
Ayn Rand, Hypocrite? Legendary opponent of “welfare state” received Social Security and probably Medicare
Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words and ideals of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the fiercest critics of federal insurance programs. But a little-known fact is that Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security. She may also have...
“And while we’re on the subject of why not a single Republican has...”
– Kevin Drum
Today is the four-year anniversary of Barack Obama announcing his run for President.
12 Memes You Should Know By Now
via nextround.net I knew most of them, some were new. Enjoy. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Sitting Supreme Court Justice's Income Tax Evasion
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife’s income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at least five years, the watchdog group Common Cause said Friday. Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, earned $686,589 from the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review of the foundation’s IRS...
How Goldman Sachs Games The System: The Month That...
Do you remember, back at the end of 2008, when Goldman Sachs switched its status from investment bank to commercial bank? This provided it with various benefits that allowed it to avoid imminent destruction, and as long as they were doing it, the Goldman partners decided to switch their fiscal year from one that starts on December 1 to one that starts on January 1. Because of that, December 2008...
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“There was, arguably, a time when Rush Limbaugh was funny. Then there was a time when he was a bag man for the GOP. Then he was a drug addict. And now, this.” - Nick Gillespie
Mocking the Chinese President’s speech? Third-graders cringe at your lazy, toxic, bigoted, xenophobic humor. Pure poison.
Rush Limbaugh is out of Calgon, gas, humor, decent society, OxyContin, You...
“If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter’s out of wedlock, “baby daddy drama”...”
– If Sarah Palin Were Black (via azspot)
Just goes to show how far Palin’s whiteness can take her. Zero intellect, two high school drop-outs, an unwed teen mother, a quitter of the one major job she had. Master of hateful coded language targeting opponents as not “real Americans”....
On January 5th, the House introduced five bills... →
pantslessprogressive:
H.R. 86 End Tax Uncertainty Act of 2011, introduced by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN); 4 cosponsors;
H.R. 99 Fair and Simple Tax Act of 2011, introduced by Rep. David Dreier (R-CA); no cosponsors;
H.R. 123 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make certain tax relief permanent, and to repeal the estate tax - introduced by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA); no cosponsors;
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“Never illegally download hip-hop music, because not only are you stealing from a...”
– Scott Moran (via Time Out New York)
9 things that make you an asshole on evolution
ronworkman:
1. You talk openly about how diseases are becoming stronger. You found a way to argue that disease has become more resistant to penicillin yet you also claim there isn’t solid proof of evolution. Bravo! That alone takes talent.
2. You eat corn. This may be hard for many of you to believe but corn is completely man-made. It DOES NOT occur in nature and never has. Without humans, corn...
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Yesterday, not a single Republican voted to keep the health care reform law. None.
They offered no new plans of their own – nothing to “replace” the reform law after they repealed it. Because all they care about is undoing every progressive accomplishment of the past two years.
Zero: That’s how many Republicans voted to preserve health care for 30 million Americans.
Zero: That’s how...